The Holy Spirit isthe Breath of Life

THE HOLY SPIRIT is the third person of the Holy Trinity, indivisible,
"Within you, there is breath, and material impersonal in nature, but in
God as life itself, breath is a personal spirit, indivisible, simple, that
gives Life to everything." "We may ask, why is the third Person
called Spirit, and why is He a separate Person, when God, even without Him, is
Spirit? I answer: The Holy Spirit is called Spirit in relation to creatures:
the Lord breathed with His Hypostatic Spirit, and there appeared, by the power
of His Life-Giving Spirit, an innumerable host of spirits: In the power of His
Spirit lies their strength; He breathed with His Spirit into man's body: and
now man became a living soul, and from this Breath, until now, people are born,
and will be born until the end according to the commandment: increase and
multiply. If the Lord created by His Spirit so many personal separate beings,
then why is it impossible for the Holy Spirit Himself to be a Person, or a
personal creative Being? If there are countless numbers of created personal
spirits, then is God Himself to remain without Spirit, without His independent,
Hypostatic Personality?"

"The Holy Spirit, like air, 'is present everywhere and fillest
[penetrates] all things.'" "The Lord Jesus Christ Himself likens the
Holy Spirit in His action to the substance of water (John 7:38-39), air, or
wind (John 3:8)." "As the air in the room is identical with the outer
air and comes from it, and necessarily presupposes the air spread out
everywhere, so in like manner, our soul, the breath of the Spirit of God,
presupposes the existence of the omnipresent, transcendent Spirit of God."

"It is the Spirit that quickeneth" (John 6:63). "The
life in creatures belongs to God, from the time of their creation, and to God
the Son, their creator, bringing them from non-existence to existence... The
Holy Spirit creates us in the womb of our mother; our spiritual wealth belongs
to the Holy Spirit."

Our soul lives by the Holy Spirit, through Him we pray, through Him we
become purified, through Him we save ourselves. "As breath is necessary
for the body, and without breathing man cannot live, so without the Breath of
the Holy Spirit the soul cannot live the true life. What the airis
for the body, the Holy Spirit is for the soul. Air is likened to the Spirit
of God. The Spirit breathes wherever It wishes." "He who prays by the
Holy Spirit." "Prayer is the breath of the soul, as air is the breath
of the natural body. We breathe by the Holy Spirit. You cannot say a single
word of prayer from your heart without the Holy Spirit."

"As in a conversation with people the sound-conveying medium between
our words and the words of another is air, which is everywhere and fills all
space, and through air the words reach the ear of another, and without air it
would be impossible to speak and hear: so in a spiritual manner, in
communication with spiritual beings the mediator is the Holy Spirit,
omnipresent and transcendent."

"We are filled with One Spirit: Do you see how the Holy Spirit
surrounds us like water and air on all sides?"

"For a long time I did not know with full clarity how necessary was the
strengthening of our soul by the Holy Spirit. And now the Most Merciful One
gave me the opportunity to find out how indispensable it is. Yes, it is
necessary every minute, as is breathing, necessary at prayer, and throughout
life. It is necessary that our heart rest on a rock. And that rock is the Holy
Spirit."

"All upright people are filled by the One Divine Spirit, similarly as a
sponge is saturated with water. The comforting Holy Spirit, filling the
universe, penetrates through all the believing, humble, good, and simple souls
of men; living in them, reviving them and strengthening them; He becomes all
for them: light, power, peace, joy, success in deeds - especially in an upright
life. The Holy Spirit is all goodness."

Thus we see what the dogma of the Holy Spirit in the thought of Father John
and how closely it is connected with life. The teaching about the Holy Spirit
is at the same time teaching about the life of the world, about the source and
nourishment of all uprightness and holiness.